Take part in a draw to win $9000 worth of camera gear (click here)! Find out details below – the second live prize draw is happening on 20th November in the YouTube live stream above.
Together with Syrp, Manfrotto and Freefly we are giving you a chance to win a massive amount of kit.
We’re giving away 5 prizes and that means more chances for you to win! All prizes are based around Renan Ozturk’s camera gear – learn more about him and his adventures by clicking here!
A Give-Away – What to do?
There is not much required to take part in our draws for the prizes, except for subscribing to our Youtube channels and watch some behind-the-scenes footage. The more you of these small tasks you complete, the higher your chance to win. Click here to take part in the competition.
The Prizes:
Winner 1 – 13th November prize- Freefly Movi for iPhone + Manfrotto Bumblebee bag + Syrp Super Dark VND Filter (Stream embedded above! Will broadcast live at 7pm GMT / 8pm CET / 2pm EST / 11am PST on November 13th).
Winner 2 – 20th November prize – Manfrotto Wheelie Bag + Syrp Genie Mini Pan Tilt Kit (Stream embedded above! Will broadcast live at 7pm GMT / 8pm CET / 2pm EST / 11am PST on November 13th).
Winner 3 – 27th November prize – Syrp Genie + Syrp Magic Carpet Long Track
Winner 4 – 4th December prize – Syrp Genie II Linear + Syrp Magic Carpet Pro Short Track
Winner 5 – 4th December TOP prize – Syrp Genie II Pan Tilt + Syrp Genie II Linear + Syrp Magic Carpet Pro Medium Track + 2 Manfrotto tripods + Manfrotto Bumblebee bag
There’s time to take part in the competition up until each prize draw! (And it’s enough to enter once to be entered into all draws.)
The prize draws are broadcast live on cinema5D’s YouTube channel (Nov 13th & 20th prize draws) and Syrp’s YouTube channel (Nov 27th & Dec 4th prize draws). Please subscribe to both if you haven’t yet, in order to stay up-to-date.
Check out the recorded 13th November Prize Draw:
Congratulations to Jeff Kerby from Hanover, NH, USA! You’re the winner of the first draw. Syrp will be in touch to get you your prizes.
Who’s Renan Ozturk?
If you haven’t heard about Renan Ozturk yet, check out this post on Syrp’s website. Renan is not only a filmmaker – he is also an expedition climber, landscape artist and is well known for taking his camera into places where you wouldn’t dream of going. He has co-directed and starred in the Sundance 2015 winning film “MERU”, co-directed the TIFF award-winning film “SHERPA”, worked on the National Geographic TV Special “Down To Nothing” and shot stills and video for National Geographic.

Blackmagic Design have sent out invitations via email and posted teasers on social media inviting people to a live stream of “a press conference showing our latest camera and post production technology” today. What’s behind this Blackmagic Live Stream?
Blackmagic Live Stream. Photo credit: Blackmagic
While we don’t know what to expect from this Blackmagic Live Stream, one can presume that DaVinci Resolve 13 is a likely candidate for announcement, given that their invite specifically mentions their professional post-production software. There is, however, surprisingly little information in the wild about this press conference. Some rumours have started circulating about a 4K update to their MFT Pocket Cinema Camera, with the addition of an H.265 codec. All we know is that we can’t wait to tune in and find out what Blackmagic have up their sleeves.
Local times indicated below, to see what they have in store for us.
Leave me your guesses in the comments below, and let’s see who gets it right!
Los Angeles 12:00 pm PST Thursday 2nd March 2017
New York 3:00 pm EST Thursday 2nd March 2017
London 8:00 pm GMT Thursday 2nd March 2017
Tokyo 5:00 am JST Friday 3rd March 2017
Sydney 7:00 am AEDT Friday 3rd March 2017

EDIT: The recorded webinar is now available for free to stream on the Sony Pro Europe website. Head over to watch the 1-hour conversation in its entirety!
Ever since the heydays of MTV in the 80s, music videos have been a creative experimental outlet for musicians and filmmakers alike. Budgets vary incredibly, probably more than in any other field of film/video production, but financial constraints can sometimes even spur creativity.
I will be hosting and moderating a webinar discussion live from Sony’s Pinewood Studios facility in London on July 6 (in about two weeks), and the guests will be independent DOP Tom Swindell who has been busy shooting many music videos over the years, and Mike Marchlewski, who is an in-house DOP and project manager for Sony Music’s production team.
from our music video production “Those Goddamn Hippies – Drift” – photo by Tony Gigov
The format is not unlike our ON THE COUCH talk show series, with the difference that it will be streamed live and the audience will be able to take part in the discussion via live questions to the panel.
Sign up here on the Sony site to join in on July 6 at 14:00 (BST) / 15:00 (CET) / 9 am (EST) or to gain access to the recording afterwards (this will be available only about a week after the recording). The discussion will last a total of 1 hour.
Here is what we will be covering in the webinar:
• Look like a million dollars: shoot attention-grabbing music videos on real-world budgets
• From storyboard to screen: conveying your artist’s vision
• Master your art: which cameras and lenses work best
• Telling a musical story: schedules, locations and shot lists
• Capture a great performance: taking care of lighting and audio
• Making the cut: break into the industry and get your work noticed
Last but not least, here are three music videos from Mike Marchlewski (Sony Music), Tom Swindell and myself:
Music Video: ‘Florrie – Real Love’, Sony Music
Music Video: ‘Kes – People’, provided by Tom Swindell
Music Video: “Those Goddamn Hippies – Drift” – directed by Nicola von Leffern, DP: Nino Leitner

IBC 2013, the second-largest show for filmmaking and broadcasting technology in the world, is drawing to a close. Like at NAB, Teradek streamed a lot of great insightful interviews with industry people about various topics on their website, and they are putting them up online afterwards for anyone to see.

Edit up to four streams of uncompressed 8-bit 1080p HD video.
I didn’t think I’d post about the Apple keynote that was held today, but they just announced and released the ultimate editing machine, a laptop that trashes most desktop PC’s, presented in a video that is brainwash-grade well made and heavily targets the indie filmmaker and all kinds of HDSLR shooters.
I must admit I can’t stand to hear “the best … we’ve ever built” anymore. Anyway here are the most interesting specs:
– 15″ LED Retina Display Resolution: 2880×1800 px
– Fast 500GB flash hardddrive (500MBps)
– 2 Thunderbolt, 2 USB 3.0 connectors
– Fast GPU (Graphics) & CPU
– can add 2 additional 2560×1600 screens
– hdmi connector
– lighter and thinner than the 13″ MBP
With a very strong emphasis on video editing Apple shows off that their new Macbook Pro is really powerful while at the same time being extremely portable.
The possibility to edit at Full HD resolution on a 15″ screen and still have room for the timeline and other windows in Final Cut is not only intriguing, it opens up a new kind of convenience for the editors among us, freeing us from our editing cage, provided you have accepted iMovie Pro of course. I’m sure Premiere will do just as good though.
When I see these Apple product ads I’m always surprised about how well they work. I think any commercial filmmaker can learn something here, not by imitating it (like I did once), but by seeing how they created a wonderfully simplistic video around an Apple product by establishing strong and clear limits and rules to their creation and how they drive this style to perfection, just like the Apple products themselves.
What do you think about these videos as a source of inspiration? Even though they’ve long overdone it I think they do a very good job at getting these ads right and making a great, enjoyable sales pitch.
Talking about the sales pitch, yes you can already buy the new MacBook Pro. B&H confirmed it will start shipping in the next couple of days.
It’s $2200:
There’s a version with for $2800

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